Fuse exchange, have you tried?

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How many members of this forum have experienced fuse changes, what their impacts on the sound quality of the system, want to share?
 
There are three different locations in a component where fuses are commonly used:
1] Line voltage AC power supply.
2] DC power supply.
3] Power amplifier speaker output.

So with each location, expect different results.
 
Speedskater said:
There are three different locations in a component where fuses are commonly used:
1] Line voltage AC power supply.
2] DC power supply.
3] Power amplifier speaker output.

So with each location, expect different results.
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You can talk about all of them.
 
I have a Synergistic Research Black fuse I tried in my Aavik U300. Made for a slightly tighter bass - hair more detail in the mids and highs. Mind you nothing earth shattering but a nice improvement for the $120 USD spent. To verify I put the original back in after about 100 hrs. Needless to say it was not staying in.
 
I tried an AMR fuse in my Magnepans. Total waste of money. They were very noticeably bright and rough sounding.
 
Well it seems that everyone who tried the fuses felt differences in sound, that is, if there are differences for better or worse and sometimes not small, I think it is worth searching the right fuse, or my logic is wrong?
So few posts, it seems that fuses are not very popular here. There is someone here who wants to try out for free some fuses from Audiofidem. I've tried Sinergistic Research, AMR, Bussman, and some other that I don´t remember and I also tried Audiomagic (for me the second best fuses), no one gets even close to Audiofidem. But don´t trust me, hear for yourself.
 
I use HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses in the following gear: Mcintosh C1000C/P preamplifier, a pair of MC2301 power amplifiers, a pair of MC601 power amplifiers, a MC452 power amplifier, and a C2300 preamplifier. In all components I felt the HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses improved resolution to a degree. It is more evolutionary than revolutionary, but I was able to clearly hear an improvement when comparing the HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses to the stock fuses. It's been five years now and all of these components are still using these fuses to my complete satisfaction.
 
jdandy said:
I use HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses in the following gear: Mcintosh C1000C/P preamplifier, a pair of MC2301 power amplifiers, a pair of MC601 power amplifiers, a MC452 power amplifier, and a C2300 preamplifier. In all components I felt the HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses improved resolution to a degree. It is more evolutionary than revolutionary, but I was able to clearly hear an improvement when comparing the HiFi Tuning Supreme fuses to the stock fuses. It's been five years now and all of these components are still using these fuses to my complete satisfaction.
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I can tell for your words that in each gear you got a little and audible improvement, in all of them the improvement was not so subtle, and was one of the cheapest ones.
In my opinion in audio there is nothing really revolutionary, we chose our equipment according to our possibilities and slowly we make upgrades, better gear, cables, speakers and so on, but we can't ignore every little improvement that some change may bring, because it is the sum of these small improvements (and there are many), commonly called ''fine tuning'', which often lead us to spectacular results.
 
allforhifi said:
I can tell for your words that in each gear you got a little and audible improvement, in all of them the improvement was not so subtle, and was one of the cheapest ones.
In my opinion in audio there is nothing really revolutionary, we chose our equipment according to our possibilities and slowly we make upgrades, better gear, cables, speakers and so on, but we can't ignore every little improvement that some change may bring, because it is the sum of these small improvements (and there are many), commonly called ''fine tuning'', which often lead us to spectacular results.
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This is true & very much the same for isolation too. Just the material that a shelf is made out of can ruin the definition from a component sometimes. Just about everything makes a difference.
 
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